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Denise Cady Arbeau
Professor and Faculty Advocate, North Shore Community College
Denise Cady Arbeau is a professor in the First Year and Foundational Literacy Department at North Shore Community College in Massachusetts. She was part of the team that developed the ALP courses that are now taught at the college—Composition and Seminar. In addition to the co-requisite course, Professor Cady Arbeau teaches First Year Experience, including a contextualized FYE course that centers on mindfulness.
Cathryn Molloy
Associate Professor and Associate Director of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication, James Madison University
Cathryn Molloy is the author of Rhetorical Ethos in Health and Medicine: Patient Credibility, Stigma, and Misdiagnosis (Routledge, 2020), and co-editor of the volumes Women's Health Advocacy: Rhetorical Ingenuity for the 21st Century (Routledge, 2019) and Strategic Interventions in Mental Health Rhetoric (Routledge, 2021). She is also co-editor of the Rhetoric of Health and Medicine journal. Her writing has appeared in College English, Rhetoric Review, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, Technical Communication Quarterly, Writing on the Edge, and Qualitative Inquiry.
Michelle Day
High School English Teacher, American Heritage School
Dr. Michelle Day Da Silva (she/her/hers) is passionate about teaching writing and other skills that do (good) work in the world, especially trauma-informed skills that build personal and community resilience. She is currently an 11th- and 12th- grade English teacher at American Heritage School, an independent college preparatory school in Delray Beach, Florida. Before that, she received her Ph.D. in English Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Louisville, where she also taught composition classes for 7 years and served as Assistant Director of Composition for 2 years. Her primary research interests are trauma-informed writing pedagogy and any project that involves working across disciplines to address social justice problems. Outside of work, Michelle finds her balance through training Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with her husband, Leo, and sharing some sunshine on the porch with her puppy, Nova.
Mya Poe
Associate Professor of English, Northeastern University
Mya Poe has been an advocate for justice-oriented writing assessment practices for more than 20 years. Her co-authored and co-edited books include Race and Writing Assessment; Writing Assessment, Social Justice, and the Advancement of Opportunity; and Writing Placement in Two-Year Colleges: The Pursuit of Equity in Postsecondary Education. Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Educational Assessment, College Composition and Communication, and Assessing Writing. She has also guest-edited special issues of Research in the Teaching of English and College English dedicated to issues of social justice, diversity, and writing assessment. Her teaching and service have been recognized with the Northeastern University Teaching Excellence Award, the Northeastern College of Social Sciences and Humanities Outstanding Teaching Award, and the MIT Infinite Mile Award for Continued Outstanding Service and Innovative Teaching.
Tieanna Graphenreed
English PhD student, Northeastern University
Tieanna Graphenreed is an English PhD student at Northeastern University studying rhetorics of Black citizenship and Black spatial politics. Her research asks a question of citizenship as a spatial practice and interrogates what it might mean to study national and cultural citizenship(s) through a spatialized—i.e., geographic, discursive, and temporal—and experiential lens. She explores questions of rhetorical citizenship through lenses of writing studies and civic rhetorical education, critical geographies of race and space, and digital humanities. While at Northeastern, Tieanna has worked on digital projects with the Early Caribbean Digital Archive and Early Black Boston Digital Almanac, served as Assistant Director of the Writing Center, and developed and led workshops on various digital tools with the NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks and the Digital Integration Teaching Initiative.
Tieanna is currently a research assistant to Professor Mya Poe at Northeastern University and working on projects in writing assessment research that consider classroom ecologies and forward antiracist genres
and antiracist assessment practices in the classroom.
Tieanna and Mya have a forthcoming article on this topic in Composition Studies.
Susan Miller-Cochran
Executive Director of General Education and Professor of English, University of Arizona
Susan Miller-Cochran is the Executive Director of General Education at the University of Arizona, where she is also a Professor of English. Her research focuses on higher education administration and academic labor (especially in writing programs), instructional technology, curricular design, and multilingual writing. She formerly served as Director of the Writing Program at UA (2015-2019), Director of First-Year Writing at North Carolina State University (2007-2015), and a faculty member in English/ESL at Mesa Community College (AZ, 2000-2006). She has also served as a past president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators and a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her work has appeared in over 40 journal articles and book chapters, and she is a co-editor of Composition, Rhetoric, and Disciplinarity (Utah State, 2018); Rhetorically Rethinking Usability (Hampton, 2009); and Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition (NCTE, 2002).
Stacey Cochran
Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona
Stacey Cochran is an Associate Professor researching innovative teaching practices centered on writing and well-being at the University of Arizona, with dual appointments in English and the office of Student Success and Retention Innovation. He has also served as the Coordinator of Student Success and Wellness in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. His doctoral dissertation Education, Wellbeing, and Society lays the groundwork for reimaging the purpose of education to prioritize well-being in learning and the implications of doing so in democratic societies. His bestselling novel Eddie & Sunny was adapted as a major motion picture starring Gabriel Luna and Joanna Vanderham and is projected for North American release in 2023. He was a finalist for the 1998 Dell Magazines Award, a finalist for the 2004 St. Martin's Press/PWA Best First Private Eye Novel Contest, and finalist for the 2011 James Hurst Prize for fiction.
Elizabeth Wardle
Roger and Joyce Howe Distinguished Professor of Written Communication Director, Howe Center for Writing Excellence, Miami University
Elizabeth Wardle’s current research focuses on how to enact grassroots change via writing across the curriculum programs, and her forthcoming co-edited collection with faculty from across disciplines is Changing Conceptions, Changing Practices: Innovating Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines (2022). She is the coauthor of Writing about Writing with Doug Downs.
Doug Downs
Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing Studies and former Director of the Core Writing Program in the Department of English, Montana State University
Doug Downs interests are in college-level writing, research, and reading pedagogy, especially as these intersect in first-year composition courses and in undergraduate research. He served as editor of Young Scholars in Writing, the national peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate research on writing and rhetoric, from 2015 to 2020. His current research projects involve methods of mentoring undergraduate research, inclusive writing pedagogies that help students grow as writers, and how we can teach rhetorics that foster constructive and cooperative public discourse. He is the coauthor of Writing about Writing with Elizabeth Wardle.
Kendra Mitchell
Director of Composition and Assistant Professor of English and Modern Languages, Florida A&M University
Kendra L. Mitchell is director of composition and assistant professor of English and Modern Languages at Florida A&M University where she teaches first-year and advanced writing courses. She serves as a CCCC Executive Committee Member for NCTE and enjoys volunteering in her local community.
Robert Randolph, Jr.
Director of The Writing Center, Shaw University
Robert Randolph, Jr., PhD (he/him), is Director of The Writing Center at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. His research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century African American literature and cultural production, socio-cultural foundations of education, and Black feminist and queer rhetorics and pedagogies. His notable publications include “The Queer Poetics of Social Justice: Literacy, Affect(ion), and the Critical Pedagogical Imperative” and “Shifting the Talk: Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Feminism at HBCUs”.